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All the scripts described below can be read in full on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, all the scripts on this site are copyrighted. They may not be printed, quoted or performed without the permission of Lazy Bee Scripts.
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A Train Ride Away by Frank GibbonsPerformance by Aiken High won The Garcia Theater Project, North Augusta 2010.

Roles

Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. Characters are mainly adults with one young child. Could all be played by children. The chorus is optional, but there are several scenes where crowds would create atmosphere.

Run Time

Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

One-act play. Intended to have figurative sets (possibly just lighting transitions), rather than realistic depictions of the locations. Props could be real or indicated by mime. Includes mild swearing.

Synopsis

The story of a family of Hungarian Jews being transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the holocaust of 1944.

Urban Hymns by Keith BadhamPerformance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011

Roles

Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six.

Run Time

Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing.

Voices by Peter Harrison2012. Hale One-Act play festival. Winner Best Original play. Production by Altrincham Garrick.

Roles

Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Designed for one principal character and four on-stage voices, though the voices could be allocated amongst a larger number of actors.The principal character is an old man, nevertheless, this could be played by a youth theatre company.

Run Time

Around 33 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The producer's copy of the script makes suggestions for accompanying music/songs. (For atmosphere, rather than live performance). Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.

Style

One-act play, set in the mind of the principal character, with other roles voiced but not interacting directly with him.

Synopsis

A veteran soldier finds himself trapped in his own flat, facing an imagined enemy.

Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Chorus. The Inner Voices characters may be offstage, but also could appear on stage. Claudia and Percy have actions rather than words. The Chorus do not speak or sing.

Run Time

Around 21 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

A short one act comedy, with quick scenes, and two simple settings.

Synopsis

Terry and Ceri are members of the local amateur dramatic society and soon become attracted to each other. Their blossoming relationship is helped, although sometimes hindered, by their inner voices which continue throughout the action. And then there is Claudia...

Recalcitrant child Edna's nature is transformed - when she is sent away to live with mean old pie maker Mrs Watts, who grants Edna's wish to have her name changed to Goldilox. She is successful in persuading the Bear family to enjoy fruit and vegetables rather than meat, but the sting in the tail hints of a grisly end for Mrs Watts.

One-act play. Simple set (two pieces of furniture - so easy to stage as a competition piece). Contains mild swearing.

Synopsis

Annie, elderly matriarch of a family, looks back on a long life on the day her granddaughter gets married. She recalls the wedding of her daughter and her own wedding day, as well as some sadder memories.

Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Chorus. Four principal characters plus chorus (so the minimum of 6 would use a very small chorus, where larger would be preferable).

Run Time

Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

The producer's copy of the script comes with piano/vocal scores to 11 original songs.

Style

One-act musical with a very direct Christian message. No real set requirements - a few stage blocks plus a few props to indicate locations.

Synopsis

Chris and Kathy Blake are a young couple who embark on married life together with all its traditional demands. Like so many others, they feel that together they are invincible and secure from the challenges and temptations of the outside world. For a while they get on with their new roles of Mr and Mrs, eventually starting a family and not looking beyond their own immediate comfort and needs. However, when their relationship comes under pressure through Chris's excessive social drinking and infidelity the cracks begin to show...

Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was regarded as having feminine looks and could be played by a woman.

Run Time

Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

One-act historical drama, set in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Most of the action takes place in a single interior set. Two exterior scenes could be played on bare stage.

Synopsis

Having reached the English town of Derby, Adjutant General of Bonnie Prince Charlie's forces, Lord George Murray agonises over the need to tell the Prince that taking London is not possible. He must win over two other members of the Prince's council to carry the day and force retreat.

Woody Allen's Shark by Jonathan EdgingtonProduction (of the first four plays) by Pazmany Peter Catholic University won the prize for Best Direction at the 4th National English Drama Festival in Veszprem, Hungary, 2012.

Collection of six short plays about relationships (which Woody Allen compared to a shark). (A continuity of theme, but no continuity of characters.) Simple sets (but five or six locations). Contains swearing.

Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. The age range of the cast has not been specified deliberately to allow for greater flexibility. Likewise, the parts of Bev and Tess can quite feasibly become Ben and Terry.

Run Time

Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!]

Music

None.

Style

A one act comedy with a radio studio setting.

Synopsis

A small radio station is ambitiously transmitting a live performance of a period drama. The presentation crumbles as the actors struggle with their own relationships, To make matters worse, the sound effects go awry and transmission difficulties arise.